One Giant Leap is a one man-show by Iain Johnstone, presented by Wee Stories as part of the Made in Scotland programme at the Edinburgh Fringe 2013. It describes itself as ‘an impossible attempt to bring the whole universe into the theatre and into our understanding, using a tennis ball, a wastepaper basket, and a dash of theatrical invention’.  It is aimed at young people age 10+, and Total Theatre invited a ten-year-old, Louie Roberts, to give us his view, here below:

Wee Stories’ One Giant Leap is an amazing show of intelligence and great knowledge. If you love science, this is your type of show. Inspired by a school science project, the performance is about a man trying to get his head around the solar system. The set was like a classroom, with chalkboards, retractable maps, and projections; it was pretty cool. From the drawers in his desk, he produced globes, books and a mirrorball to show the stars moving around. One of the many facts I learned from it is that the moon is 400,000 km (or 293,000 miles) from the Earth. Mixed up with the knowledge, there is a funny side to it as well. It includes film footage of the first people on the moon and of rockets crashing. Near the end, you start to think it’s getting slightly too long because there is a bit too much information, but it makes you realise how much there is to learn about the solar system.